The Ecole pratique des hautes études, PSL-University in Paris, France is hiring a #postdoc research associate in Hebrew Literature to work on the ERC Synergy project #MiDRASH (Migrations of Textual and Scribal Traditions via Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Medieval Manuscripts in Hebrew Script) for the team led by @d_stoekl

deadline for applications: 14th July 2023

#job #digitalhumanities @jewishstudies

https://www.eurojewishstudies.org/homepage-announcements/the-ecole-pratique-des-hautes-etudes-psl-university-in-paris-france-is-hiring-a-postdoctoral-research-associate-in-hebrew-literature-to-work-on-the-erc-synergy-project-midrash-deadline-for-applicat/

I'm really excited about this class and how it's an opportunity to look at how rich traditional texts combine with identity to create new and important interpretations. And this isn't my usual beat here in the Fediverse, but it's one of my favorite parts of my day job and, if you want to know more about #Midrash and #JewishWomen and even a little theology, come join me! https://www.yeshivatmaharat.org/summer-at-maharat

I first heard this #Midrash from the late Nechama Leibowitz, Z"L in a class I took with her in the summer of 1995. It says the #Jews in the desert weren't able to drink the water in Marah because "כי מרים הם" wich is normally translated as, "because the waters were bitter". This Midrash reinterprets the words to mean, "Because the people were bitter". Out attitude colors the way we see the world in so many ways! #parsha #torah #mazeldon

#sdtps And the Prefect interrogated the me, saying:
“Why are you here before me?”
“Those there are, Your #Excellency with a #powerful say, who say the I am the #King of the #Jews.”
“And are you; are you the #King of the #Jews?”
“Is #Jerusalem, Your #Excellency the #capital of the #Roman #Empire?”
“Absolutely not!”
#yerushalayim #al-quds #midrash #hebrew #shalom #peace #holy #histodons #TIBTM170

Great piece here! It's Only a Midrash - Exploring the value of Midrash to the modern Jew
By @bosheshabayis

https://bosheshabayis.com/posts/midrash/

#Midrash #Jewdiverse

HOW TO ARGUE JEWISHLY

Analytical criticism – argumentation – is an essential part of #Judaism in the Mishnah and #Talmud. It is part of every #yeshiva and Hebrew school. Note that Jewish arguments are aimed at reasoning and conclusions, but not ad homenim.

“Just as a knife can be sharpened only on the side of another, so a disciple of a sage improves only through his chaver” - #Midrash Genesis Rabbah

We take a closer look here

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/06/25/how-to-argue-jewishly/

@mazeldon

Have you heard about the amazing new Jewish texts available this year on Sefaria?

https://www.instagram.com/p/CmrQW_1N21b/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

#Sefaria #JewishTexts #Mazeldon #Jewdiverse #Midrash

@ThisWeekInAS

This is an important and thoughtful discussion. To add a layer to it - note that the early quotes of Jesus himself in the #Gospels are different than how they're understood in the rest of the #NewTestament and #ChurchFathers.
Compare these "Pharisee" teachings (mainstream Rabbinic Judaism in the #Mishnah, #Midrash, and #Talmud) with Jesus's ideas - many are the same.

#Jesus may have been closer to Pharisee than to other groups of Jews at the time.

https://merrimackvalleyhavurah.wordpress.com/2017/02/12/rabbinic-judaism-and-the-new-testament-parallels/

We're the Mastodon face of an online Havurah with 2500 Jewish people, Coffeehouse Torah Talk. We are Jews who feel close to Conservative Judaism, Hadar, Modern Orthodoxy, the Jewish Catalog, Masorti movement, neo-Hasidism, and the tradition-embracing wing of Reform /Progressive Judaism. In a world of religious & political factionalism we're building a community for the moderate 80% of Klal Yisrael.

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@judaism
@mazeldon
#Mazeldon #Babka #Torah #Jewish #Talmud #Midrash

A reviewer on my friend's book:

"I particularly appreciated Elbom’s scripturally based challenge to narrow-minded, authoritative interpretations of sacred texts as a form of social control. I was both stunned and truly moved by the assertion that such approaches are a form of desecration. (Of course they are.)"
- Christine M. Skolnik on Gilad Elbom's Textual Rivalries: #Jesus, #Midrash, and #Kabbalah.

https://www.fortresspress.com/store/productgroup/2051/Textual-Rivalries

#Semiotics #Scripture #Reading

cc: @godpod

My D'var Torah for Noach (c: @admin) features the protagonist of my forthcoming opus, The Snake.
#Torah #mazeldon #jewish #artist #digitalart #midrash

Passionate about #decolonization of our spiritual imagination and practice? Us too. Join us in 30 mins for #DecolonisingSundaySchool as Kenyan theologian Carol Ng’ang’a and I facilitate Rev Dr #WilGafney ‘s [re] introduction to the Hebrew Bible, #Womanist #Midrash .
Link up on the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/74585730

This is going to be my first #VerseThursday :)

Try my very queer, very Jewish, very Biblical poem "The Prophet, To His Angel" in Fantasy Magazine earlier this year -

"You’re my angel; Biblical
wheels within wheels, skin taut over
the bone cage of your structure,
myriad eyes gleaming with a fire
of letters on parchment."

https://www.fantasy-magazine.com/fm/poetry/the-prophet-to-his-angel/

#Jewish #queer #poetry #PoetryCommunity #BodyHorror #Bible #midrash #SpeculativePoetry #SFF #Fantasy #HistoricalFantasy